Fire-guard and soot-catcher



(No Model.)

F. w. s'T-o-GKTON. FIRE GUARD AND SOOT GATGHER.

No. 506,279. vPatented Oct. 10, 1893.

lUNiTED STATES FRANK w. 'sTooKToN,

or PARsoNs, KANsAs.

FIRE-GUARD AND SOOT-CATCHER.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,279, dated October 10, 1893.

` Application filed May 22, 1893.

biistion through a stovepipe or flue, and also to provide means for collecting the soot within aremovable receptacle, the parts being simple and eifective in their construction and operation.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of the construction and arrangement of the parts thereof as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section of pipe showing the iniproved appliances in connection therewith, the pipe being broken away to clearly illustrate the parts. Fig. 2 is a section on the line Fig. 1, showing the parts in a different position. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on the line y-y, Fig. 2.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a section of pipe, which comprises a horizontal member 2, with a vertical depending extension 3, communicating therewith and forming a T-joint, the construction as set forth indicating a horizontal flue or pipe, and where the said pipe is arranged vertically or straight theT-joint and soot-catcher will be slanting a trifle. Within the horizontal member of the pipe-section, in advance of the point where the depending extension communicates therewith, is located a vertically-disposed wire gauze disk 4, of rather coarse mesh and closely fitting the inside of the said horizontal member. Within the depending vertical extension 3 is removably mounted a soot-catcher or receptacle which consists of a cylindrical body 5, formed with oppositely-situated upper curved recesses 6, to cause the same to align with the horizontal member of the pipe-section and thereby avoid obstruction ofthe draft of the same.

Serial No. 475,034. (No modeLl The said body of the soot-catcher, between the recesses 6, is formed with upwardly-extending curved arms 7 and 8, and to the inner side of the arm S is secured a parabolic damper 9, and between the said damper and the opposite arm 7 is rigidly fixed a wire gauze screen 10, of finer mesh than the screen 4, the said screen 10 standing at a right angle to the damper and attached to the arm '7,i

,so as to suspend the same over the sootcatcher. The soot-catcher and the parts cai'- ried thereby are adapted to be revolved within the extension 3, and to provide for readily attaining this operation a wire handle 11 is attached to the'lower end'of the soot-catcher and has both ends thereof run through a hole 12 in a lid 13 which is removably fitted over the lower end of the said extension 3 and supplied with opposite bayonet-slots 14, adapted to engage oppositely-disposed studs 15, on the said extension. The hole 12 is just large enough to permit the handle 11 to be revolved in adjusting the soot-catcher and the parts carried thereby; and when desired it will be seen that the lid 13 may be readily detached and the soot-catcher removed to clean the saine. By the position of the handle it canY be readily ascertained whether the dampery be opened or closed, and by this means a full control ofY the draft can be obtained at the proper place.

In operation, the smoke, carrying particles of combustion either inignited or dead condition, passes through'wire-ganze screen 4, and then through the screen 10, and by this means 'the soot is caused to drop within the soot-catcher andthe smoke 4is permitted to pass on through the flues withoutbeing laden with any solid or depository particles therein. By this means it will be seen that it is impossible for a spark to pass through the screens, and even though a defective flue may exist a safeguard against fire is provided. By means of the soot-catcher and its function the fine will be kept clean and when the damper is turned in closed position a drum is formed in the pipe from the same and the soot-catcher clear to the stove, thus obtain- IOO ing the benefit of every pound of fuel that is consumed.

The device serves an exceptionally useful and benflcial function, as hasbeen stated;

and it is obviously apparent that changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new isl. In a device of the character set forth, the combination of a pipe or fine, a wire gauze screen mounted therein, a removable sootcatcher adjacent to the said screen, and another screen carried by the upper part of said soot-catcher and of finer mesh than the aforesaid screen, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class set forth, the combination ota pipe-section, a pair of screens mounted in said section which are spaced apart from each other and varying in degree of mesh, and a removable soot-catcher relatively co-acting,r with said screens, substantially as described.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination of a pipe-section, a screen of rather coarse mesh mounted therein, a sootcatcher removably mounted adjacent to said screen and adapted to be revolved, a damper secured to one side of the upper part of said soot-catcher, and another screen attached to the opposite side of said soot-catcher at an angle to the said damper and of finer mesh than the aforesaid screen, substantially as described.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination of a pipe-section havingascreen mounted therein, and asoot-catcher adjacent to said screen that is adapted to be removed and revolved and supports another screen and a damper, substantially as described.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination of a horizontal pipe-section with a lower extension, a screen mounted in said horizontal pipe-section, a soot-catcher remov ably and rotatably mounted in said extension having upper oppositely-disposed curved recesses with curved arms between the same, and a lower handle, a damper carried byoue ofthe said arms, a screen fixed to the opposite arm and of tiner mesh than the aforesaid screen and standing at an angle to the said damper, and a lid removably fitted over the lowerend of the said extension and having an opening in the center thereof through which the said handle projects, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK W. STOCKTON.

Vitnesses:

J. F. LEWIS, CHAs. I-I. TANNER. 

